in case any of you were wondering ....
jail sucks.
i'll get to the comment replies shortly. i promise.
jebus, it's good to be on the "outside"
okay, so i've decided to just tell the story here instead of typing it on each individual journal.
you all remember how Monday night was Crown night? well .... lets just say this panda didn't exactly slow down with the shots. then i decided to drive myself home. yeah, really fucking stupid. AND in my drunken stupor i decided it would be better if i took the back roads. again with the fucking stupid. so i get pulled over for "Failure to Maintain Lane." i refuse the breathalyzer, which turns out can automatically suspend your license for a year but when the arresting officer doesn't do a field sobriety test either turns around to greatly benefit your case. so anyway, the deputy ran my license and found a bench warrant for "Failure to Appear" from a previous traffic citation, which by the way boys and girls really pisses off judges.
so i was arrested, taken to jail, booked and processed and charged with DUI and "Failure to Maintain Lane" but the "Failure to Appear" is what kept me in jail on a "Hold for Judge." i couldn't even bond out until after i saw the judge for the FTA.
yes, i know, i'm really fucking stupid. no, i'm not ever going to drink and drive ever again.
one really appreciates small things like butter, salt, ice, being outside, warmth, real showers, shaving ...... damn near everything when you've been in jail. and i was only there for 3 days. i can't imagine being in there for even a month.
jail sucks.
i'll get to the comment replies shortly. i promise.
jebus, it's good to be on the "outside"
okay, so i've decided to just tell the story here instead of typing it on each individual journal.
you all remember how Monday night was Crown night? well .... lets just say this panda didn't exactly slow down with the shots. then i decided to drive myself home. yeah, really fucking stupid. AND in my drunken stupor i decided it would be better if i took the back roads. again with the fucking stupid. so i get pulled over for "Failure to Maintain Lane." i refuse the breathalyzer, which turns out can automatically suspend your license for a year but when the arresting officer doesn't do a field sobriety test either turns around to greatly benefit your case. so anyway, the deputy ran my license and found a bench warrant for "Failure to Appear" from a previous traffic citation, which by the way boys and girls really pisses off judges.
so i was arrested, taken to jail, booked and processed and charged with DUI and "Failure to Maintain Lane" but the "Failure to Appear" is what kept me in jail on a "Hold for Judge." i couldn't even bond out until after i saw the judge for the FTA.
yes, i know, i'm really fucking stupid. no, i'm not ever going to drink and drive ever again.
one really appreciates small things like butter, salt, ice, being outside, warmth, real showers, shaving ...... damn near everything when you've been in jail. and i was only there for 3 days. i can't imagine being in there for even a month.
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You have my sympathy.
I just graduated college with a degree in Criminal Justice. Of course, a month before graduating, and while taking a class on Legal Aspects of Policing, I drove home drunk and was pulled over by the police. Somehow, by some sheer luck of good fortune, I got off. I had been falling asleep at the wheel, brushed up against a concrete slab, supposedly overcorrected and almost hit a car (from what the officer told me). I immediately told the officer I had been falling asleep at the wheel, but he was like, "Dude, you're drunk!" At one point, remembering from a legal class how much police use discretion and how there are 700 possible outcomes to a traffic stop, I said, "You know, you could follow me home." He was royally pissed off at me but somehow I had gained enough sympathy. He asked if I had ever been arrested for DUI (no), asked if I had a cell phone, he took my truck keys, and told me to use my cell phone to call a friend. He then sped off. He just didn't want to deal with me, for whatever reason. It was 3 am, which is the time police departments usually change shifts, so I'm guessing he was getting off of work and didn't want the hassle of extending his shift.
The average drunk drives drunk 1,000 times before getting caught for the first time. They are slower to get arrested a second time for DUI because they learn from their mistakes. I think I drove drunk maybe 75 times before that incident.
I suppose that failure to appear can make you appear as a flight risk.
On the side note, I recently had a friend who had his license for suspended for failing to pay a ticket, and then one month later he was arrested for driving. Forget about not drinking and driving, don't drive.
[Edited on Dec 18, 2004 12:20PM]